And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
Ver. 2. For a penny a day] Not for eternal life (for this those murmuring merit mongers never had, who yet had their penny), but something (whatever it were) that gave the labourers good content; that it was for which each of them followed Christ, whether for food perishing, or enduring, John 6:27 .